Did you know that a steppe eagle can travel up to 2,200 miles in a single day? So we wonder how far and where they would go if we could track them for an entire year? Well, thanks to a young man called Fahd Qash, we can now see where steppe eagles went for an entire year of their lives.
Fahd Qash from Jizan, Saudi Arabia was minding his own business and enjoying a quiet stroll when he came across something out of the ordinary. What he found was a dead eagle with a tracking device. Upon closer inspection, the man saw that the device had the owner’s email on it.
As it later turned out, the GPS has been fitted in Russia, some 20 years ago! A group of scientists had even decided to run an experiment where they tracked the movements of 20 eagles for a whole year. It turns out that this group of scientists was tracking these eagles and now we can see exactly where they went!
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#1 A deceased eagle with a GPS tracker found in Saudi Arabia
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#3 And when the owner was contacted, the results were quite interesting..
#3 This map shows the migration routes of 20 eagles during a year
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